Review Request 118865: [startkde from plasma next] create ~/.kde directory if it doesn't exist

[David Edmundson]

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Closing as this review request is more than 2 years old.

If it still applies to current Plasma please reopen this review request. Thanks

- David Edmundson


On June 21, 2014, 2:26 p.m., José Manuel  Santamaría Lema wrote:
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> (Updated June 21, 2014, 2:26 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> Hi,
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> I have been working a bit in kubuntu's plasma packaging, when I started plasma from a fresh new account I noticed I couldn't see most icons in the GUI's except for a few ones.
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> So I checked the starkde output to try to find out what was wrong, I found a line like this one:
> static QPlatformTheme* QKdeTheme::createKdeTheme(): Unable to determine KDEHOME
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> Digging a bit more into the issue I also found out where this message comes from.
> File src/platformsupport/themes/genericunix/qgenericunixthemes.cpp (Qt 5.3.0) lines 446-468:
> QPlatformTheme *QKdeTheme::createKdeTheme()
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>     // Check for version >= 4 and determine home folder from environment,
>     // defaulting to ~/.kde<version>, ~/.kde
>     const QByteArray kdeVersionBA = qgetenv("KDE_SESSION_VERSION");
>     const int kdeVersion = kdeVersionBA.toInt();
>     if (kdeVersion < 4)
>         return 0;
>     const QString kdeHomePathVar = QString::fromLocal8Bit(qgetenv("KDEHOME"));
>     if (!kdeHomePathVar.isEmpty())
>         return new QKdeTheme(kdeHomePathVar, kdeVersion);
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>      const QString kdeVersionHomePath = QDir::homePath() + QStringLiteral("/.kde") + QLatin1String(kdeVersionBA);
>      if (QFileInfo(kdeVersionHomePath).isDir())
>          return new QKdeTheme(kdeVersionHomePath, kdeVersion);
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>      const QString kdeHomePath = QDir::homePath() + QStringLiteral("/.kde");
>      if (QFileInfo(kdeHomePath).isDir())
>          return new QKdeTheme(kdeHomePath, kdeVersion);
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>      qWarning("%s: Unable to determine KDEHOME", Q_FUNC_INFO);
>      return 0;
> }
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> So I'm inclined to think the ~/.kde directory should be created if it doesn't exist, thats what the patch does. What do you think?
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> Diffs
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>   startkde/startkde.cmake ea0bdfe 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118865/diff/
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> Testing
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> Applied a similar patch in a customized kubuntu package. With the patch the ~/.kde directory is created and the icons can be seen.
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> Thanks,
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> José Manuel  Santamaría Lema
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